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Oh I know, I am that amoung other thing that I have been called. Some I can't even spell.
Not that anyone would notice.
YEAH!!! And, speaking of "spelling"....
D*MN IT, CHAD!!! There is NO friggin' "superfluous U" in the spelling of the word "among"!!! HECK, even those lousy BRITS and HOSERS don't spell "among" with that lousy friggin' SUPERFLUOUS U!!!!
(...nope, but they DO usually add a superfluous "st" at the end of that word!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I nearly did that as well, add "st".
I'll try to do better don't beat me this time. I'm ah just not as edumacated as you'uns round here.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Iu thiunk wue shold audd "U"s tou eveury wourd thaut doesun't hauve oune aund leauve theum ot ouf thue ounes thaut dou. 
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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I'll try to do better don't beat me this time.
Why not? That's what you'd do!
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Its would have to be about helmet laws
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Iu thiunk wue shold audd "U"s tou eveury wourd thaut doesun't hauve oune aund leauve theum ot ouf thue ounes thaut dou.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Jeez, I leave for 5 minutes...
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Jeez, I leave for 5 minutes...
Whew!!! Well John, at least YOU didn't say...
"Jeeuz, Iu leauve four fiuve mintes..."!!!!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Jeez, I leave for 5 minutes...
Whew!!! Well John, at least YOU didn't say...
"Jeeuz, Iu leauve four fiuve mintes..."!!!!
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Definitely cabin fever...
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I live in the sun downunder
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Jeez, I hope you don't get washed away. 
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After that I sat on the back veranda...
I just hope it doesn't get to the point where you have to sit on your roof, Frank.
Here's to drier days ahead! 
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Here's to drier days ahead!
For all of us. Florida is the only state in the union that doesn't have any snow right now. Even Hawaii has some on top of a volcano.
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Thanks for the thoughts John & Keith. We live about 500 metres from the Burnett River, but we are on really high ground. We have an expected river flood level of 7.5 metres at 6pm tonight at the town centre. Some of the houses that were flooded just after Christmas are going to get water through them again.
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Geeze Frank... THAT'S rough! My thoughts go out to those finding themselves in the midst of all that flooding. Not a happy time for many of our Aussie brethren.
Live to love, love to live.
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This was filmed in Toowoomba in Southern Queensland. How fast water can rise.
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Live to love, love to live.
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don't we already have a post going about the weather there??? web page I thought this one is about the events in Arizona Ed
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Sorry guys, posted in the wrong place.
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Sorry guys, posted in the wrong place.
Well, I'm not sure about that, Frank. This thread IS titled "Current Events", isn't it?!
(...and dude, I'm seein' a WHOLE LOT of "currents" rushin' by in those videos comin' outta Oz lately!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Well Dwight it certainly is a C?RRENT event. We have to go into town today for medication. Due to the C?RRENT event our 23 Klm. journey will turn into a 135 Klm trip. Reason being, the C?RRENT in the river is still rising. 
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Sorry guys, posted in the wrong place.
Well, I'm not sure about that, Frank. This thread IS titled "Current Events", isn't it?!
(...and dude, I'm seein' a WHOLE LOT of "currents" rushin' by in those videos comin' outta Oz lately!!!)
I'm SOOOOO... disappointed in yo, YO of ALL people to se the "sperflos " in crrent! 
And you may see me tonight
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Well Dwight it certainly is a C?RRENT event.
We have to go into town today for medication.
Due to the C?RRENT event our 23 Klm. journey will turn into a 135 Klm trip.
Reason being, the C?RRENT in the river is still rising.
My apologies Erle.
Just for you. 
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Sorry guys, posted in the wrong place.
Well, I'm not sure about that, Frank. This thread IS titled "Current Events", isn't it?!
(...and dude, I'm seein' a WHOLE LOT of "currents" rushin' by in those videos comin' outta Oz lately!!!)
I'm SOOOOO... disappointed in yo, YO of ALL people to se the "sperflos " in crrent!
Well HECK, erle! I think you're gettin' the wrong idea here!
Yep, ya see my "quest-in-life" is NOT to "obliterate" the letter "U" from the English language! NOOOOOOO! It's to take up the "cause" of one smart and freedom loving American lexicographer by the name of Noah Webster(1758-1843) whose "great contribution" to the world was to rid it of that SUPERFLUOUS U in certain words!!!
(...hey, everybody has their "hobbies", RIGHT?!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Here's a few U's you can use when ever and where ever you like!!!uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu  
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Here's a few U's you can use when ever and where ever you like!!!uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Nah, no thanks Steve. If I need any extra "u's" in the future, I just use THESE instead....
Ewes...err...youse know what I mean?!
(....yep...must be "cabin fever", alright!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Cabin Fever??? how many inches of snow did you get??? New England just got 8" to up to 23" in some areas!!
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Well Steve, because it hasn't warmed up all that much since the last snow storm around here two weeks ago when we got about a foot of the stuff up here in northern AZ, I still have just about that amount sittin' on my property where I haven't had to shovel it...driveway, patios and decks. But yeah, I did take my BA out for a spin just the other day now that it's hittin' in the low-50s again and now that the roads aren't icy anymore. And so, I suppose, the claim of "cabin fever" being the cause of my lousy punning and assorted other joking on my part might not hold up to "further scrutiny", huh?!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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All this over a "u". Not a super-flu-stitious-hero "u" like Dwight supposed either just a regular one. I only put it there in case of an emergency and it was need.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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O.K. I/We had a little fun and got side tracked with the "U", Back On Topic. Terrible tragedy, if a mad man wanted to kill someone and guns were banned, he would use a bomb, car or whatever he can to carry out is objective, EVEN A BANNED GUN.  
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I read a statistic, and again, this it to reinforce Steven's point, not to get political, that this is a violent country. Where there's a will there's a way. Not only do we outnumber all other civilized western countries in gun deaths per capita, we vastly outnumber other countries in knifing deaths (probably baseball bat and crowbar deaths as well). I'm waiting for the ban on cutlery to make it's way through congress.
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In Britain they have banned cutlery, that seems to be the weapon of choice. Well, they banned firearms.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
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When I was going to school in Fort Collins, CO, I always had roommates. In one place, my roommate Tony and I were pretty heavy into guns. We'd go shooting regularly. One of my other roommates, Rob, would say something ignorant and inevitably one of us would say to him, "Don't make me shoot you." One night he had us rolling with a comeback. He was sitting on the couch, eating his soup and rocked the line, "Please, I could kill you with this spoon before you could get to your guns." I guess you had to be there.
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You and Tony would have fit right in at my frat house in the early 70s. Other frats called us hippies with guns.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Its always funny that we seem to forget we humans killed millions of people before guns were invented. Wars, murders, acidents with "cutlery". We are a violent breed and always will be.
I would be willing to bet that practicing with swords and axes probably killed a lot of people, or at least dismembered them.
Also why is it that cities with carry permits actually have a reduced crime rate. Were cities that have out and out bans like D.C. have horrible crime rates.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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We are a violent breed and always will be.
Speak for yourself and leave me and plenty of others outta this.
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When refering in gereralities it is understood that there are exceptions.
However generalizations are generaly true.
Humans have exibited a huge appetite for violence. You don't watch violent movies or play violent games or laugh when a violent accident happens to someone. I know you are mad at me cause I "dis-ed" Canada earlier in another post
I really was just joking with ya, and ment no offence.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I really was just joking with ya, and ment no offence.
Offense taken... and enough OT rhetoric!
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Well I apologize for causing offence. and am not shure what OT means.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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